| On Thursday 05 March 2009 07:16:15 Rick Miles wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2009 04:22:10 James Richard Tyrer wrote: > > Rick Miles wrote: > > <SNIP> > > > > > You might note a previous post of mine today where I could not print a > > > pdf with okular as it asks me what filter to use and then won't do > > > anything with any of those offered for selection. > > > > That is very strange. I have KDE-4.2.1 from source and all I can say is > > that it works OK for me. However, if you have >= 4.2.0, I would report > > it as a bug. > > Check my previous reply to you, I'm not quite sure if we are comparing > apples to apples, perhaps my qt isn't up to yours. > > > > I'm only interested in a pdf reader which IMHO kpdf did a better job of > > > for me than acroread, Dunno about the "more features" I just want > > > three: view, preview and print. Small and simple is nice. > > > > I see your point and with people using Dolphin, we do need an app that > > is basically just a frame for the KParts. I would suggest that if you > > just need the basic functions that you use the Okular part in Konqueror > > rather than opening the app. > > Anything will do for a reader I suppose but yesterday I was revising a > flyer, checking to see if the edits were in the revised pdf and then > checking the print preview before printing. Kpdf seemed to produce a > better facsimili of a pdf both as a reader then as a print preview so I can > live without it but I have not figured out why it is asking me what filter > to use. It don't know and neither do I. > > > > I really could care less whether I use kooka or not if the replacement, > > > scanlite, has some documentation so maybe I can figure out how to get > > > it to see my networked scanner which xsane has no problem doing and it > > > to uses the sane backend. > > > > Won't help you now, but if it doesn't find your networked scanner, > > report the bug. > > I'm not sure it is a bug maybe a limitation (no Fud intended Anne) but I > have found the problem. > > Scanlite is a frontend for sane and the utiltiy sane-find-scanner does not > see my scanner although I can use the sane cli command "scanimage -L", i.e. > list, to identify my scanner: > > rick@rick:~$ scanimage -L > device `net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ' is > a Hewlett-Packard PSC_2350_series all-in-one > > I'd quess that skanlite parses the ouput of sane-find-scanner to create a > list of scanner device(s) and so it will not open for me because > sane-find-scanner does not list my networked scanner. > > However, I can open skanlite and scan if I run this command in konsole: > > skanlite -d > net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ' is a > Hewlett-Packard PSC_2350_series all-in-one > > Thats fine and dandy but it Thats cli and one of those unmemorable commands > so if I want to take the easy way out its a matter of editing the skanlite > in kmenuedit so that the command entry looks like this: > > scanlite %u -d > net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ > > and if I want an icon that works I will need to edit > /usr/share/applications/kde-4/scanlite.desktop so it looks like this. > > [Desktop Entry] > Type=Application > Exec=skanlite -caption "%c" %i -d > net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ > Icon=skanlite > X-DocPath=skanlite/index.html > Terminal=false > Name=Skanlite > <snip> > > Note that <snip> was mine and the file is much longer due to > internationalisation. Also there is no icon for scanlite so I'll have to > use some other image and provide a path after "Icon=" maybe I'll use the > old kpdf icon just for the heck of it :^) Cheers, http://turtlespond.net http://rickmiles.com.au |
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